Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself
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Release date: 01 January 1997
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- untitled
- The Waydown
- Dirty Fingernails
- Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat
- The Fruit That Ate Itself
- Summer
- Karma's Payment
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Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself: Wikipedia Album Entry
The Fruit That Ate Itself is the third EP released by indie rock band Modest Mouse in 1997. The album was recorded at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios. Originally, the session was planned to record a 7" release, but it soon expanded into an EP. The track "Dirty Fingernails" also appears on Yoyo A Go Go, a compilation album released by Yoyo Records.
Upon its release, the band expressed some embarrassment with the marginal nature of some of the tracks in an interview in The Rocket, joking that Calvin Johnson would start recording every time they jingled their keys. The album features several experimental interludes, consisting of music reversed in post-production.
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Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself Lyrics
Modest Mouse - Dirty Fingernails Lyrics
Dirty dirty fingernails
Out of the shower onto the bathroom floor
Into the kitchen underneath the casserole
Dirty dirty fingernails...
Modest Mouse - Fruit That Ate Itself Lyrics
Take a drive in the wrong hand lane
Got bad breath talking bout fresh rain
My hand my hand gonna shake the same
Are you gonna be your own goddamn best friend
Modest Mouse - Summer Lyrics
Wake-up we're stealing cars
1996 1997 1998 we're all waiting for the year 2000
Just the smell on the summer can make me fall in love
We go to the parties listen to the dj's
Modest Mouse - The Waydown Lyrics
On the waydown they saw a lot they don't remember
And if you asked them how, they couldn't say how they got there
And if you want them now, you could just pull on the lever
And say, "I'm hung up on gravity"
Modest Mouse - Sunspots In The House Of The Late Scapegoat Lyrics
It was on the rotating eyes
It was all on the same postcard
It was all on the same damn shirt
Said to sleep in the same Sear's camp house
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Modest Mouse - Karma's Payment Lyrics
Down low, down low, down low
Down low, down low, down low
Down low, down low, down low
